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Democracy : a life
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- Summary
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The 2,500 year story of democracy, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century.
Details
- Creator
- Paul Cartledge
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (417 pages) : illustrations, maps
- ISBNs
- 9780191079177, 0191079170, 0198815131, 0199697671
- OCLC
- ocn959951532
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- COVER -- DEMOCRACY: A Life -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF MAPS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- TIMELINE -- Archaic Age -- Classical Age -- Hellenistic Age -- Hellenistic Age -- Late Roman Republic -- Early Roman Empire -- Later Roman Empire/ Early Byzantine Age -- Some post- antique landmarks -- DEMOCRACY -- PROLOGUE: Lost in Translation? Modern and Contemporary Appropriations of Democracy I -- I -- 1. SOURCES, ANCIENT AND MODERN -- 2. THE EMERGENCE OF THE POLIS, POLITICS, AND THE POLITICAL: Modern and Contemporary Appropriations of Democracy II -- II -- 3. THE EMERGENCE OF GREEK DEMOCRACY I: Archaic Greece -- 4. THE EMERGENCE OF GREEK DEMOCRACY II: Athens 508/ 7 -- 5. THE EMERGENCE OF GREEK DEMOCRACY III: Athens 507- 451/ 0 -- 6. GREEK DEMOCRATIC THEORY? -- 7. ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY IN PRACTICE C. 450-335 -- 8. ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY: CULTURE AND SOCIETY C. 450-335 -- 9. GREEK DEMOCRACY IN CREDIT AND CRISIS I: The Fifth Century -- 10. ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY IN COURT: The Trials of Demos, Socrates, and Ctesiphon -- III -- 11. GREEK DEMOCRACY IN CREDIT AND CRISIS II: The Golden Age of Greek Democracy (c. 375-350) and Its Critics -- 12. ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY AT WORK IN THE 'AGE OF LYCURGUS' -- 13. THE STRANGE DEATH OF CLASSICAL GREEK DEMOCRACY: A Retrospect -- IV -- 14. HELLENISTIC DEMOCRACY?: Democracy in Deficit c. 323-86 BCE -- 15. THE ROMAN REPUBLIC: A Sort of Democracy? -- Polybius' Roman Constitution -- The Millar Thesis -- 16. DEMOCRACY DENIED: The Roman and Early Byzantine Empires -- 17. DEMOCRACY ECLIPSED: Late Antiquity, the European Middle Ages, and the Renaissance -- Post- Antique Mediaeval West -- The Renaissance -- V -- 18. DEMOCRACY REVIVED: England in the Seventeenth Century and France in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- England in the Seventeenth Century
- France in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- 19. DEMOCRACY REINVENTED: The United States in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries and Tocqueville's America -- The United States -- Tocqueville's America -- 20. DEMOCRACY TAMED: Nineteenth- Century Great Britain -- EPILOGUE: Democracy Now: Retrospect and Prospects -- Optimism -- Conclusion -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER 1: ANCIENT SOURCES AND SOURCEBOOKS -- ARISTOTLE -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- CHAPTER 13 -- CHAPTER 14 -- CHAPTER 15 -- CHAPTER 16 -- CHAPTER 17 -- CHAPTER 18 -- CHAPTER 19 -- CHAPTER 20 -- EPILOGUE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- INDEX